Action Items as menu entries

I think it would be great if action items (which can be created in text areas) could be placed in a menu. I am especially targetting python scripts, but other things like calling bookmarks etc. would also be good.

There could be a menu "Action Items" in which the user/developer could place action items using esentially the same dialog as used for text areas. This way, a user would always have action items that can be used on any page. There are actually ideas where people would like something like a text area present on all pages (SPF-I-4919). Using Menus would be even more elegant for action items required everywhere. There should also be a way to group Action Items in the menu for better usability.

A very good addition would be if action items could be put into context menus, especially of visualisations. This would be very useful if a script works on a visualisation. But also putting them in context menus of the filter panel etc. could be useful. Again, grouping of the menu entries should be possible.

An alternative would be to have a special panel holding the action items which could be switched on and off on each page.

I think the idea would greatly enhance the user experience because developers could easily extend the application with python scripts without having to use c# extensions or so (which for example I can't).

The background of the idea actually is: I have an issue with python scripts to obtan the active visualisation reference when using an action item in a text area. The problem is that Document.ActivePageReference.ActiveVisualReference will reference the text area, NOT the active visualisation I am interested in. I'd like to have the visualisation that was active before the button in the text area was clicked. Using menu entries or a special panel, there should be no issue with this.